There's one about shutting the door, something about being born in a barn???
Can youremember that one jeannie
I never understood that when young, as my experience of a barn was quite small with a door cut in 2 halves across the middle. I now realise that it refers to the really large ones which have double doors opposite each other, so when all open a massive draught was created for winnowing the corn.
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I never understood that when young, as my experience of a barn was quite small with a door cut in 2 halves across the middle. I now realise that it refers to the really large ones which have double doors opposite each other, so when all open a massive draught was created for winnowing the corn.
Another one of my dad's: do you want me to take my hand off your bottom/face? This was said when we were naughty
Didn't happen often 
star lily you are welcome
look like you've lost a pound and found a penny was the saying when I was growing up for a glum face John
if you where quiet has the Cat got your tongue
He'd also say ' there and back to see how far it is' when we asked where someone were going.
Anyone else heard these ?
New ones on me MrsG
'you rattle like a tin o mabs' ( mabs = marbles). Said when someone talks a lot.
Ah! I was quoting an old Bristolian saying - something old Bristolians say!
Another, said about someone a bit dipsy, "He's a sandwich short of a picnic" with a variant: "A penny short of a shilling"
Said by someone astonished, "Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs" - the American version of that is, "Well, I'll be horn-swaggled"